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play a bit, can she? The other one wasn't bad. Didn't one of them give poor Cardew the chuck or something?"
Alex could bear the risk of their discovering her proximity no longer, and hastened into the house.
It was the first afternoon since her arrival at Windsor that she had not looked eagerly for the afternoon post.
The letter, a square, bluish envelope of cheap glazed paper, caught her eye almost accidentally on the table in the hall.
She recognized it instantly, and snatching it up, opened and read it standing there, with the scent of a huge bowl of late roses pervading the whole hall, and the distant sound of cries and laughter faintly penetrating to her ears from the tennis-court and garden outside.
Mother Gertrude's writing showed all the disciplined regularity characteristic of a convent, with the conventional French slope and long-tailed letters, the careful making of which Alex herself had had instilled into her in Belgium.
The phraseology of the Superior's letter was conventional, too, and even her most earnest exhortations, when delivered in writing, bore the marks of restraint.
But this letter was different.
Alex knew it at once, even before she had read it to the end of the four closely-covered sheets.
"Sept. 30, 1897.
"MY DEAREST CHILD,
"There are many letters from you waiting to be answered, and I thank you for them all, and for the confidence you bestow upon me, which touches me very deeply.
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